Parish Updates

May 2021

Asian, Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

AAPI Heritage Month Mass Flyer.pdf

The Boston Archdiocese is celebrating this month as the Asian, Asian Ameican and Pacific Islander.

Cardinal Sean O'Malley is inviting our community to join him as he celebrates the AAPI Heritage Month Mass on Monday May 3 at 6:30pm at the Cathedral of the Holy Cross in Boston.

In-person attendance is limited to 300 people. Please register to attend in person at http://bit.ly/AAPImass.

For those unable to attend in person, a livestream will be available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UKJ0I_d_Xs.

Holy Communion

We are excited to announce the Holy Communion for 11 of our communicants this year.

Sunday, May 9th, 2021 - Holy Confession

Saturday, May 15th, 2021 - Holy Communion

Please note given the current occupancy restrictions still in place, priority will be given to communicants, their families and their guests

Mother's and Nurse's Day

Happy Mother's Day and Happy Nurses Day to all our care-givers !!

Our Parish will be having a Holy Qurbana Dedicated to all Mothers and Nurses on May 9th.

The Holy Qurbana will be offered at 10:00 AM EST, Sunday, May 9th 2021.

Facilities Update

We are excited to share the latest of the updates from our facilities.

Most of the updates in our church basement is moving towards completion. We recently completed the Spring Cleaning and have spruced up the place.

Our COVID protocols are still in effect. Please note that we have been deep cleaning the pews after the Sunday Qurbana.

April 2021

Holy Week Events

For Holy Week :

Palm Sunday : Sunday, March 28th, 2021 Qurbana at 10:00 AM EST

Maundy Thursday : Thursday April 1st, 2021 Qurbana at 7:00 PM EST

Good Friday : Friday, April 2nd, 2021 - Passion of Christ at 3:00 PM EST

Holy Saturday : Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 - Blessing Of Holy Water at 9:00 AM EST

Holy Saturday : Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 - Easter Vigil at 7:00 PM EST

March 2021

Retreat during Lent

[Updated 3/25/2021]

Lent is a time for Spiritual Renewal and knowing the needs for a retreat, the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago has arranged for 2 retreat sessions.

Retreat 1 : Scheduled for March 12th, 13th and 14th at 8:00 PM to 10:00 PM EST will be led by Rev. Bishop Prince Anthony Panengadan, the Bishop of Adilabad.

March 12th - https://youtu.be/vfP924KsiT8

March 13th - https://youtu.be/fNSqcsD4rOE

March 14th - https://youtu.be/O1bHnBckS4w

Retreat 2 : Scheduled for March 26th, 27th and 28th at 8:00 PM EST to 10:00 PM EST will be led by Rev. Fr. Roy Palatty, Spiritual Director, Shalom Media

March 26th, 2021 : https://youtu.be/drkfw6HoPgw

March 27th, 2021 : https://youtu.be/Us8Ia6coh1w

March 28th, 2021 : https://youtu.be/szj-XmomcnY

Details of the event will be shared to all.

Holy Week Events

Registration for all Qurbana's in March and the Holy Week is now available. Please register here by clicking on this link.

For Holy Week :

Palm Sunday : Sunday, March 28th, 2021 Qurbana at 10:00 AM EST

Maundy Thursday : Thursday April 1st, 2021 Qurbana at 7:00 PM EST

Good Friday : Friday, April 2nd, 2021 - Passion of Christ at 3:00 PM EST

Holy Saturday : Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 - Blessing Of Holy Water at 9:00 AM EST

Holy Saturday : Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 - Easter Vigil at 7:00 PM EST

St. Joseph's Feast and Novena

[Updated 3/11/2021]

As announced last sunday, owing to the diocesean retreat which starts at 8:00 PM EST, there is a change in time for the events on Friday, March 12th

Adoration will start at 5:15 PM EST

Holy Qurbana will start at 6:15 PM EST followed by St. Joseph's Novena

There will be no Way Of The Cross in Church on March 12th.

All the services during the 10 day Novena will be telecast live on SMCB Youtube channel

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With the declaration of year 2021 to be the Year of St. Joseph, we are organizing a 10 day Novena starting the 12th of March leading up to the Feast of St Joseph on 21st March, 2021.

We will be Live Streaming the Qurbana during the Novena.

Please register here if you wish to attend the Qurbana.

Bible Month

The 12th grade students of our Parish CCD will be organizing a virtual Bible Month. It will be based on the Gospel of St. Luke.

The event will be inagurated on March 7th.

Parish Council Update

The Parish council met on February 21st and reviewed the Parish Accounts and approved the budget for 2021.

In accordance with the directives from the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago, this Parish Council meeting was also in lieu of the Annual Pothuyogam (General Body Assembly) for 2021.

Facilities Updates

Progress continues on the Accessibility and Restroom Renovation projects. All the restrooms are almost ready to use.

SMCB Parish Facilities is happy to share the progress of the project.

Holy Week Events

Registration for all Qurbana's in March and the Holy Week is now available. Please register here by clicking on this link.

For Holy Week :

Maundy Thursday : Thursday April 1st, 2021 Qurbana at 7:00 PM EST

Good Friday : Friday, April 2nd, 2021 - Passion of Christ at 3:00 PM EST

Holy Saturday : Saturday, April 3rd, 2021 - Easter Vigil at 7:00 PM EST

Back to March 2021 Newsletter

February 2021

10th Year Anniversary of our Church

Its been 10 years since we bought and moved into our current church St. Jeremiah's. What started as few families coming together for a weekly mass to a full-fledged home for our community, is a testament of our determination.

As promised starting this month, we will start recounting many of those milestones and share them with the community.

We will also be organizing many events leading up to the St. Thomas Feast in June when we will be formally commemorating our 10 year celebrations.

Please reachout to the Parish Office for more details and watch out for communications and events around this.

Parish Council Update

As the current COVID-19 situation hasn’t abated, and given that we are still under stay-at-home directives from the Massachusetts state, we will be cancelling our Annual Pothuyogam (General Body Assembly) for 2021. This is also in accordance with the directives from the St. Thomas Syro-Malabar Catholic Diocese of Chicago.

As per the decision taken by the Parish Council last year, where it was decided to publish the summary along with the individual tax contribution statements. The Audtited summary of the Income and Expense for the year 2020 has been mailed to all parishoners and is available at the Parish Office on request.

Facilities Updates

Good progress on the Accessbiblity and Restroom projects. There are few minor items pending on bathrooms before it’s open to public. We expect this in the next couple of weeks.

The ADA bathroom is mostly completed except for the sink which is to be delivered around mid-feb.

SCMB Parish Facilities is happy to share the progress of the project.

Plans for Lent

This year the Lenten season starts on February 15th with Ash Wednesday. We will have Adoration at 6 PM followed by Mass at 7:00 PM every weekday of Lent.

Way of the Cross will start at 7:00 PM followed by Mass every Friday of Lent.

Bible Month

The 12th grade students of our Parish CCD will be organizing a virtual Bible Month. It will be based on the Gospel of St. Luke.

The event will be inagurated on Feb 28th.

Back to February 2021 Newsletter

January 2021

10th Year Anniversary of our Church

Its been 10yrs since we brought and moved into our current church St. Jeremiah's. What started as few families coming together for a weekly mass to a full-fledged home for our community, is a testament of our determination.

Starting next month, we will start recounting many of those milestones and share them with the community.

We will also be organizing many events leading up to the St. Thomas Feast in June when we will be formally commemorating our 10 year celebrations.

Please watchout for more communications and events around this.

Year of St. Joseph

In his Apostolic Letter, Pope Francis had declared this year as the "Year of St. Joseph". This is to commemorate the 150th year anniversary of the declaration of St. Joseph to be the Patron of the Universal Church.

St. Joseph, is often described as a beloved father, a tender and loving father, an obedient father, an accepting father; a father who is creatively courageous, a working father, a father in the shadows.

Our Parish will be celeberating this year in a very special way. As Stephen Achan spoke about in his Homily on December 29th, we are requesting all to say a special prayer every day after our family prayer.

The communication team has prepared the prayer and is avaiable here...

2021 Calendar V2.pdf

2021 SMCB Parish Calendar

We are glad to share our latest calendar. Just like last year, we will only be sharing the digital version of the calendar.

You can get all the details of the services and events in our church for the year 2021.

Please free to reachout to the ParishOffice at parishoffice@smcbostong.org for any queries.

Updated Guidelines for attending Service

Given the added restrictions as announced by the Massachussetts state government, we are updating some of our guidelines.

Please refer to the latest guidelines here...

Back to January 2021 Newsletter

November 2020

Circular No.76-2020- Annex Building to Bishop's House.pdf

Support for Annex Building to the Bishop's House

As per the circular issued by St. Thomas SyroMalabar Catholic Church Diocese, the Diocese is requesting contributions towards the construction of an Annex Building to the Bishop's house.

Please do reach out to the Parish office for more details on how to contribute and support the diocese in this initiative.

Basement Restroom Renovation

Finally, we are making some real progress. The tiling for the sides and floor of the bathroom has been completed.

The city inspection of the ADA restroom is still pending. We are moving forward with the remaining 2 restrooms.

St. Joseph's Ministry

The Parish council took an unanimous decision to set up a new ministry to support infrastructure related work with respect to the church. With this in mind, the new St. Joseph Ministry has been formed with Parish council Secretary Sunny John as its first President.

The vision, charter and office bearers of this new ministry will be announced in the coming weeks.

Please do reach out to the Parish office if you would like to participate .

Plans for Christmas

Christmas is just around the corner. Can you believe it ???

Just like we conducted the St. Thomas Feast, we hope to make the Christmas Celebrations grander. As details of the plans are being finalized, the Parish council requests your virtual participation in all the celebrations !!

Please reach out to your respective Family Unit Presidents to discuss on how you can participate in the celebrations.

Back to November 2020 Newsletter

October 2020

Basement Restroom Renovation

We made some progress in September and hope to complete the work around mid-October.

The contractor identified some of the plumbing that needed replacement and hence the delay. As of now, the tiling of the bathrooms have begun.

Move to a digital platform

The SMCB Parish office has decided to move our digital assets to Google Cloud and leverage Google's G-Suite business productivity utilities. This is to ensure that we are able to have CCD Classes Online and at the same time ensure more privacy and controls can be setup.

Our G-Suite account has now been setup as a Not-For-Profit account and hence we can start leveraging the features. All members of the Parish Office and CCD office are to use the new G-Suite Account for all official communications of the parish.

Plans for 10-day Rosary Devotion

The 10 day devotion of the Rosary will be held from October 22nd to October 31.

CCD Updates

If you have not registered your kids for CCD, please do so immediately. As all our CCD classes have gone remote, we request your help in registering and signing the online waiver form without any further delay.

Please refer to the details on CCD Classes here.

Back to October 2020 Newsletter

September 2020

Ettu Nombu

As per the circular issued by the Synod, the Syro-Malabar Church will be observing the the Ettu Nombu with great zeal and commitment. All the parishioners are requested to pray fervently so that the world is saved from the grip of the contagion.

In addition to this, on the Friday of this lent (04 September 2020) all are requested to fast and observe abstinence for this intention.

The Syro-Malabar Church of Boston, will be organizing a daily Qurbana at 7:00 PM on weekdays and 10:00 AM on weekends during the Ettu Nombu

Communion Mass

The 2020 Holy Confession, Communion and Confirmation of 7 of our kids was celebrated with much fanfare. The community came together to wish and pray for the new communicants.

The event was streamed live across the world and was one of the most viewed content from our parish.

Restroom Renovation In Basement

We have started the renovation of the restrooms in the basement. We are also adding a new ADA compliant restroom as well.

The work was stalled pending the inspection from the City and will resume starting next week.

The Parish Facilities committee inspected the recent changes and has reported satisfaction in the progress thus far.

The Parish council is closely monitoring the progress on this project which is expected to complete by early October.

Diocesan Pre Cana Course

The Diocesan Family Apostolate announces the upcoming Marriage Preparation Course ONLINE. The next course if dated for 18th - 20th, September 2020.

For more details please contact :

Fr Paul Chalissery : 919 749 7175
Fr John Melepuram: (215) 808-4052

Mr Boban : (631) 553-6617
Mr Jose Prakash : (954) 540-7286

For registration: email to familyapostolate.chicago@gmail.com

CCD Updates

Considering the current situation, and keeping the safety of everyone in mind, the Parish council and CCD leadership have decided to keep our CCD classes online, till December 2020.

The CCD classes will start the week of September 13^th, depending on the schedule agreed upon by parents and the teachers. Classes have been intentionally avoided in the mornings on Sundays to enable those who would like to attend the Qurbana in-person, to do so.

There will not be any online classes for Pre-K and Kindergarten students. Parents will be sent the teaching materials for these grades. Parents may contact us if you need help.

Please refer to the details on CCD Classes here.

Back to September 2020 Newsletter

August 2020

Vertical Lift Completed !!

The Vertical Lift Project has been completed. It was inaugurated on July 26th the feast of St. Alphonsa.

We take this opportunity to thank all who have contributed to this project.

All inspection and the requisite certification of the unit has been completed. Please note that the Vertical Lift is to be used only by those in need.

Restroom Renovation In Basement

We have started the renovation of the restrooms in the basement. We are also adding a new ADA compliant restroom as well.

The contract was signed and the work has already started and good progress has been made. The basement is closed for public access now and will be reopened once the project is completed.

The renovation will include replacing the flooring and tiles in both the existing restrooms. Along with it, we are also planning to add new touchless amenities for your convenience.

We will also be adding a new ADA compliant bathroom, which will be the culmination of our Accessibility Project.

The Parish council is closely monitoring the progress on this project which is expected to complete in September.

St. Thomas Feast Celebrations

The Parish Council and the Parish office thanks and congratulates the entire parish for the very successful completion of the 2020 Parish Feast. For the first time the event was conducted virtually for all to participate and also for the first time it was a week long celebration.

Over the week, we created over 15 videos and entertainment programs which was created by our

The office wishes and extends their sincere thanks to all those who participated in making this a success

Qurbana and Communion Updates

The state of Massachusetts had updated its guidelines for holy mass and the attendance capacity have been incremented to 50%. We are keeping a very close watch to these guidelines and would request all to follow them as well.

For details on the guidelines, please follow the link below

Guidelines and Qurbana Registration

The Online Sign-up Sheet for August is now available. Please Sign-up. The above link has the latest registration form.

After a long wait, the parents of the 2020 Communicants have decided to have their kids prepare for the Holy Communion on August 16, 2020.

Back to August 2020 Newsletter

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